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Infant Vision

François Vital-Durand, Janette Atkinson, and Oliver J. Braddick

Abstract

This book provides an overview by international authorities, spanning the disciplines of neuroscience, psychology, ophthalmology, optometry, and paediatrics, of normal and pathological infant visual development. It covers the development of retinal receptors; infant sensitivity to detail, colour, contrast, and movement; binocularity, eye movements, and refraction; and cognitive processing. Childrens' visual deficits, including amblyopia and cataract, are covered.

Keywords: neuroscience, psychology, ophthalmology, optometry, paediatrics, infant visual development, retinal receptors, binocularity, eye movements, refraction

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 1996 Print ISBN-13: 9780198523161
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198523161.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

François Vital-Durand, Editor
INSERM U371 Cerveau et Vision, Bron

Janette Atkinson, Editor
University College London

Oliver J. Braddick, Editor
University College London

Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Contributors

Part I Basic Coding of Spatial and Chromatic Vision

1 Development of contrast sensitivity in normal and amblyopic monkeys

2 Development of the visual field: results from human and animal studies

3 Development of primate rod structure and function

4 Assessing dimensionality in infant colour vision

5 Spatial and temporal properties of infant colour vision

6 Development of visual motion processing

Part II Refraction and Resolution

7 Basic considerations when refracting infants

8 Using near retinoscopy to refract infants

9 Prediction of myopia in children

10 Issues in infant vision screening and assessment

11 Photorefraction for the detection of amblyogenic defects: past and present

12 The Rotterdam C-chart: visual acuity and interocular acuity differences in very low birth weight and/or very prematurely born children at the age of 5 years

13 Acuity cards and the search for risk factors in infant visual development

Part III Oculomotor and Binocular Processes

14 Striate cortex, extrastriate cortex, and colliculus: some new approaches

15 Eye alignment and convergence in young infants

16 Eye-head relations in neonates and young infants

17 Development of binocularity and its sexual differentiation

18 Dioptric blur, grating visual acuity, and stereoacuity in infants

19 Evaluation of sensory visual development based on measures of oculomotor responses

Part IV Perception, The Brain, and Clinical Applications

20 The organization of visual perception in early infancy

21 Pattern processing in infancy: hemispheric differences and brain maturation

22 Practical application of the visual evoked potential in paediatric neuro-ophthalmology

23 MRI findings in children with cerebral visual impairment

24 Occlusion therapy for childhood amblyopia: current concepts in treatment evaluation

25 Visual development following treatment of a unilateral infantile cataract

26 Visual development in children with congenital cataract

27 Visual instrumentation for use with visually deficient children: the Point Mobile

End Matter

Index